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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 24, 2008 - 11:31pm PT
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How sweeeet it is!
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jul 24, 2008 - 11:48pm PT
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Cool - and thanks for the photos!
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jul 14, 2009 - 01:39pm PT
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Zander,
So you even did a TR of Traveler B in 2008... boy, you get around! Great Pics.
...and when will you be getting around to North Country's?!
Footloose
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 14, 2009 - 01:46pm PT
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Love that route. Did it back in the late Sixties. The L.Leap is so fun.
Here is a re-image of that shot below the crux. it needed this, it's a nice image:
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Jul 14, 2009 - 02:10pm PT
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one of my all time favorites. I used to do it a couple of times a year.
One of my best climbing memories is from the first time I did that route. After pulling the squeeze, you get that third pitch around the corner onto steep and exposed jugs. I just remember some friends waving to me from the trail and waving back from a great holds on steep climb with a lot of air under my feet.
They don't get much better than this climb.
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msiddens
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Jul 14, 2009 - 02:11pm PT
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Great one....I finally got back on that thing last year after bailing back when my hexes were the only thing dangling off my rack. Much better with a wide cam but a great route regardless.
A picture at the hidden jug.
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scabang
climber
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Jul 14, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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I did it in the early 90's and thought that i was da Man. When along comes this chica two bricks & a tickey high carrying a 75l North Face pack and she proceeds to solo the climb, no problem. Showoff!
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jul 14, 2009 - 04:56pm PT
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chica two bricks & a tickey high
What in the heck is that?
msiddens... try that 5.10 crack to the left next time... save your shoulder... take it from an old man.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jul 14, 2009 - 05:25pm PT
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Sooo cool.
Thanks for sharing Zander!
Gotta get there some day.
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msiddens
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Jul 16, 2009 - 01:06pm PT
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Footloose.....you should know as you were the belayer there:-) I'd love to go back and do it again. Come to thing....still need to get on Roofer's and continue up and Eagle's as well. So much to do.
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jul 16, 2009 - 01:32pm PT
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msiddens-- Well save me as your Eagles partner, then! come Sept or Oct, I think, after all that avian business is through...
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2009 - 12:27am PT
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Hey Peter,
How did you tweak the photo. I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of photoshop. Did you use photoshop? If so, what did you do exactly. If you used some other program, what was it and what did you do.
Thanks,
Zander
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Jul 17, 2009 - 01:41am PT
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Great report Zander, it makes me want to do the route.
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 17, 2009 - 01:48am PT
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Msiddens, whaddya mean, hidden jug? It's as obvious as can be! It's a classic piece of squeeze chimneying: one place, reach way in for a fist jam (maybe only works if your arms are long); at others, holds at the outer edge. Just don't wedge yourself too far in and it's a cruise. The lower you go out to the arete on the 3rd, the more fun it is, with successive moves on toe holds right on the very frickin' edge. Better than the Gunks.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
the ground up
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Jul 17, 2009 - 01:49am PT
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" hey there...say . . . " is now copywritten. Talk to her lawyer(s).
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seth kovar
climber
Bay Area
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Apr 25, 2010 - 06:50pm PT
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Bump...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Apr 25, 2010 - 07:12pm PT
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a couple of shots from the late 80s...early season ascent...photos courtesy Eric Collins
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2010 - 10:39pm PT
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TT,
Nice blast from the past photo bump.
Z
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Apr 25, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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you bet Z...at that time those high tops were "all the rage"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Apr 26, 2010 - 01:16am PT
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I've only been up there once, and after a long weekend and late into the afternoon I bailed on pitch two right at the crux. Been told I was within 6"s of the "hidden hold" but wasn't feeling it that day.
Anyway, we brought big ass cams with us (maybe even a #6??) thinking "protect the Off Width" - but it seemed big cams wouldn't really work anyway. What size is right for those crux moves anyway??
Got to go back soon and clean up my record and my guilty conscience for being a wimp that day. ha
thanks in advance
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